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9:1  I speak the truth in Christ--I am not lying; my conscience is testifying to me with the Holy Spirit--
9:2  that I have intense sorrow and continual anguish in my heart.
9:3  For I could almost wish to be cursed and cut off from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my own flesh and blood.
9:4  They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, and the promises.
9:5  The ancestors are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Messiah, who is God over all, praised forever. Amen.
9:6  But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
9:7  Neither are they all children because they are Abraham's descendants. On the contrary, your offspring will be traced through Isaac.
9:8  That is, it is not the children by physical descent who are God's children, but the children of the promise are considered to be the offspring.
9:9  For this is the statement of the promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.
9:10  And not only that, but also Rebekah received a promise when she became pregnant by one man, our ancestor Isaac.
9:11  For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God's purpose according to election might stand--
9:12  not from works but from the One who calls--she was told: The older will serve the younger.
9:13  As it is written: I have loved Jacob, but I have hated Esau.
9:14  What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!
9:15  For He tells Moses: I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
9:16  So then it does not depend on human will or effort but on God who shows mercy.
9:17  For the Scripture tells Pharaoh: I raised you up for this reason so that I may display My power in you and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
9:18  So then, He shows mercy to those He wants to, and He hardens those He wants to harden.
9:19  You will say to me, therefore, "Why then does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?"
9:20  But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
9:21  Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?
9:22  And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction?
9:23  And what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory--
9:24  on us, the ones He also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
9:25  As He also says in Hosea: I will call Not My People, My People, and she who is Unloved, Beloved.
9:26  And it will be in the place where they were told, you are not My people, there they will be called sons of the living God.
9:27  But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: Though the number of Israel's sons is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved;
9:28  for the Lord will execute His sentence completely and decisively on the earth.
9:29  And just as Isaiah predicted: If the Lord of Hosts had not left us offspring, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made like Gomorrah.
9:30  What should we say then? Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness--namely the righteousness that comes from faith.
9:31  But Israel, pursuing the law for righteousness, has not achieved the righteousness of the law.
9:32  Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.
9:33  As it is written: Look! I am putting a stone in Zion to stumble over and a rock to trip over, yet the one who believes on Him will not be put to shame.